Background: Epidural anesthesia is an effective intervention to treat labor pain and provide analgesia for orthopedic procedures. A rare complication of this technique is epidural catheter retention. Case Presentation...
Introduction: Ultrasound facilitates neuraxial puncture in obese parturients. Unfortunately, the widespread adoption of neuraxial ultrasound may be limited by the lack of technical expertise or the limited avai...
Background: Pulsatile waveforms originating from the spinal cord and transmitted through the dura in synchrony with heart rate have been used to confirm the epidural location of the catheter. Lumbar epidural space ide...
Introduction. The aim of this open, prospective, single operator study was to report the clinical experience with the CompuFlo? Epidural Instrument. Method. Epidural block was performed with the CompuFlo? Epidural Ins...
Background: Epidural anesthesia continues to play a central role in postoperative analgesia. Epidural catheter breakage and fragment retention in the body is a complication related to epidural anesthesia. To reduce th...
Background: The study was done to assess the postoperative analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided continuous transverses abdominis plane block, continuous lumbar paravertebral block and a continuous lumbar epidural b...
Background: The SpineNav3DTM technology was recently incorporated in the Accuro device for the automatic detection of spinal bone landmarks. The goal of our study was to validate the ability of the Accuro ultrasound s...
Background: Pneumatic arterial tourniquet is a very commonly used technique in limb surgeries to provide bloodless field to facilitate dissection and decrease blood loss. However, arterial tourniquet has many deleteri...
Objective: Epidural steroid injections (ESI) are used extensively to treat radicular back pain. This study is designed to evaluate the types and dosages of steroids commonly used and understand prescribing habits of t...